30.11.17

2019: Kwankwaso tells supporters to dump APC

A former governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has
reportedly asked his supporters in the state to dump the All
Progressives Congress (APC) for the opposition Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP).
According to his nephew, Musa Iliyasu Kwankwaso, who is also the
Commissioner for Special Duties in Kano State, the former governor had
asked his supporters to join the PDP ahead of the forthcoming local
council election in the state.

He was reacting to the report that pressure was being mounted on Kwankwaso to decamp to the former ruling party.
He told newsmen in Kano yesterday that, “Already, he has given the
go-ahead to his supporters to join the PDP in Kano State so that they
can contest in the forthcoming local government election in the state.
But what I can assure him is that the APC will win all the 44 local
governments because of the growing supporters’ base of Governor Ganduje.
“It was because of Kwankwaso that the chairman of the PDP was thrown
out of office because they wanted to hand over the party structures to
him ahead of his defection,” he also claimed.
“They want to use red caps to cause confusion during President
Muhammadu Buhari’s visit next month. We will not allow that because Kano
people are for Buhari all the time,” he said.

“I think we should think positive. We are taking the negative side
now. It is just like me asking you: ‘If your employers do this or that,
would you leave your place of work?’
“We should think positive; it depends on how you put it. We are happy
now in the APC, we are comfortable with our leaders in Abuja and they
have not done anything wrong,” he said then.